if you're asking if your md will detected automatically, then yes, with .40 you only need to boot the md over lan and you'll get a popup screen asking if this is a md, you need to assign a room for it.in .39 you needed to go to pluto-admin, create a room, add new device 'generic pc as md' then supply the mac address and do the setup diskless to get an ip.

mec is indeed a version of media center which we tried to implement, you need to add 'generic pc as md' though.

1. The Device I am trying to use here is a DLINK DSM 320 Digital Media Player. Not a pc with a pxe boot network card.

2. I have other pxe boot pc's running as Media directors and they are fine

3. It did not make sense to me but I tried to use suggestion above and set it up as a diskless md. It gets a Ip address fine from the pxe boot section of dhcpd.conf but boots to its own os not as a md. I don't think this device supports PXE anyway.

4. My Impression of Diskless Media Directors is basically a pc with a PXE capable network card. Are there other devices that can be used as media directors.

5. Are we talking the same UPnP?? I am speaking of the media protocol that is used with windows media connect. as in http://www.upnp.org/

yes, i think we're not speaking about the same issuei was meaning device detection (like dhcp) more then a server who manages media clients.i know that we worked for some time to a upnp server but i don't think the job is done.you don't have something to start at this time, as a conclusion.